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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
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Björk decides to stick to music
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bjork is content to be a one-hit wonder—as a movie actress.
The eclectic pop singer, who has sold 7 million copies of her solo CDs, said she always intended that her starring role in Dancer in the Dark would be a one-shot deal.
It's true Björk walked off the set for a few days during filming, but it wasn't a matter of a temperamental diva throwing a hissy fit and sniffing, 'I'll be in my trailer.' She did it as the film's composer Her music was changed without her being consulted.
That's not because of her already legendary clashes with director Lars von Trier, Björk said in the sometimes tentative, lifting voice that is a hybrid of her native Iceland and several years in Britain, which results in a kind of Danish cockney.
"The reason I don't want to act is not because of this film, that it was difficult or something like that. I felt like that before the film," she says. "I made an exception and decided to act once. But I think I should stick to music. I feel pretty loyal to music."
She and von Trier didn't have a contract, and she was upset that the music was getting chopped up and changed.
Björk, who won the best actress award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, thinks too many people are "fiddling" with too many things, and she doesn't want to be one of those amateurs.
So she's returning to her first and abiding love and feeling a little unfaithful.
naving an affair from music, that I felt dirty," she said. The 34-year-old singer is recording a new album, which is due out next spring, and is happy to be working with people she calls "like-minded."
The chuckle was a bit rueful because she and von Trier sometimes were anything but like-minded while making *Dancer in the Dark*, which won the prize for best film at Cannes.
I were periods in this film when I felt like I was having an affair from music, that I felt dirty," she said.
So she wrote a "manifesto" and demanded final say about the movie's music. The Danish director, who had made a splash with Breaking the Waves, relented and signed it.
"Definitely did not eat clothing," she said, smiling, denying one of the wackier reports of her behavior. "I don't know where that came from."
"You can just go straight to the jokes," she said, with a little laugh.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Molecule components
6 Potpourri
10 Writer Harte
14 Singer Shore
15 Enter
17 Take care of
18 Stick-to-it-liveness
19 Prevailingide vire
2 Two-finger grip
3 Underdog wins
5 Gilbert of "Roseanne"
6 Dumbfound
7 Be a buttinsky
8 Paddle
9 Sleeping pill
10 Abel to Adam
10 Spoils
18 City on the Moselle
9 Cryptographic
19 Scarf scark
19 Hair-coloring
19 In flames
19 Illegal contribution
46 and tonic
47 Author of "Our Garden"
49 Research rm
50 Guided
51 McBain and McMahon
52 Beef and moan
54 Deflected side
56 Vegetable holder
57 G-sharp
59 Fundamental reasons
6 Calgary Stampede, e.g.
6 Covered to suppress
6 Challenger
" She Lovely"
7 Cincinnati nine
7 Technique
DOWN
1 Classified ___
2 Connection
3 First grade
4 Dull surface
5 Diner employee
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6 ___ for our team
7 Advances
8 Ky. neighbor
9 Lifework of an artist
10 Scottish hillside
11 Sought office
12 Listing inbater.
13 Golf-hole start
14 Take to the stage
15 Jacob's brother
16 Of higher-income consumers
17 Read looking for it
18 Business agents
19 Attack
20 Suffering goosefeesh
21 Even smaller
22 Short, purposeful trips
23 Kidder
24 "You There"
25 Scandinavian country. abbr.
26 Time period
Answers to Tuesday's crossword
45 Formal dance
48 Original "SNL"
cast member
55 Color name
55 Quart juice
54 Quart fraction
54 Govt agents
59 Slugger's stat
60 Gore and Capp
11 Khaki shade
2 Snacked
64 Matter-of-fact
65 Wiggly catch
66 Raw mineral
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